Summary:
GCSE Geography for Avery Hill is an exciting and motivating new course that develops the skills required to achieve exam success for the OCR/WJEC GCSE ‘B’ specification. It is written by experienced Avery Hill teachers and a senior examiner. The course explores the relationships between places, processes and people to facilitate a thorough understanding of contemporary issues, such as sustainability, interdependence and globalisation. Each unit contains features written especially to reflect the structure of assessment and requirements of the exam:

• Graded, skill-building activities using real-place data, maps, photographs, and ICT resources to provide thorough practice in gathering, refining, analysing and evaluating information for investigative purposes.

• Integrated use of case studies for selected MEDC and LEDC locations such as Iceland, Mali, Costa Rica and the UK and other areas to highlight concepts or issues. Locations are revisited to help build knowledge of specific parts of the world.

• Examination technique boxes to focus on how to answer standard exam questions, such as describing a distribution, comparing a pair of graphs and using map skills.

• A chapter focusing on problem-solving exercises.

• ICT opportunities for personalised learning and assessment using the CD-ROM.

• Single textbook delivering whole specification.
• Written by experienced Avery Hill teachers and edited by an examiner of the course.
• Includes exam questions and advice as well as advice and practical examples of geographical skills.
• Graded, skill-building activities using real-place data, maps, photographs, and ICT resources to provide thorough practice in gathering, refining, analysing and evaluating information for investigative purposes.
• Integrated use of case studies for selected MEDC and LEDC locations such as Iceland, Mali, Costa Rica and the UK and other areas to highlight concepts or issues. Locations are revisited to help build knowledge of specific parts of the world.
• Examination technique boxes to focus on how to answer standard exam questions, such as describing a distribution, comparing a pair of graphs and using map skills.

Table of Contents:
GCSE Geography for Avery Hill
CONTENTS
Title page
Credits, acks and contents
Intro: About this book
Unit 1 Climate, environment and people (extent c.63 pp)
Ch1 Climate, environment and people: the big picture
Ch2 Investigating climate patterns
Ch3 Weather
Ch4 Ecosystems
Ch5 Human impact on forest ecosystems
Ch6 Getting up close to nature: Investigating micro-climates
Ch7 Climate change
Ch8 Managing weather hazards in Australia: the problem solving exercise
Unit 2 Water, landforms and people
Ch1 Water, landforms and people: the big picture
Ch2 The drainage basin
Ch3 Water resources
Ch4 Flood hazards
Ch5 Drought hazards
Ch6 River processes and landforms
Ch7 Coastal processes and landforms
Ch8 Managing the coastal environment in Essex: the problem solving exercise
Unit 3 People and place
Ch1 People and place: the big picture
Ch2 Inequality in the urban environment
Ch3 Investigating access to urban services
Ch4 Changing the city
Ch5 Rural-urban interactions in Africa
Ch6 Conflicting demands on Europe’s countryside
Ch7 Sustaining rural communities a the edge of Europe
Ch8 Creating sustainable rural communities in South Africa: the problem solving exercise
Unit 4 People, Work and Development
Ch1 People, work and development: the big picture
Ch2 Patterns of employment
Ch3 How do we measure development?
Ch4 Trade
Ch5 Patterns of international aid
Ch6 Economic activity in a global world
Ch7 The impact of work and development on the environment
Ch8 Investigating sustainable development in the Galapagos Islands: the problem solving exercise
Glossary
Index

About the Author(s):
Andy Owen is an experienced author and teacher

Contributors:
Colin Lancaster is an experienced author and teacher

Readership:
GCSE Geography students